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<h1>Replace in Projects Dialog</h1>
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<p>This dialog searches projects for instances of specified text or a regular expression and replaces those instances with another specified text. 
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<p>This dialog contains the following fields:</p>

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<p>Containing Text</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t61 r1c2-t61">In this field, type or paste the text or regular expression. Click the down arrow for a drop-down list of previously used search expressions.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Match Case</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Search only for instances of the text or expression that match the exact upper and lower case characters entered in the Containing Text field.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Preserve Case When Replacing</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t61 r1c2-t61">If Match Case is not selected, click this to preserve upper and lower case characters when replacing text.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whole Words</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Search only for whole words. Ignore longer words that are made up in part of the text in the Containing Text field</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regular Expression</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Indicates that the entry in the containing text field is a regular expression. Click test, and another search dialog opens where you can search for one text pattern.</td>
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<p>Replace With...</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r7c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Text that should replace the contents of the Containing Text field. Click the down arrow for a drop-down list of previously used replacement texts.</td>
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<p>Scope</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r8c1-t61 r1c2-t61">The scope of projects to search. You can either search the projects you selected in the Projects window or all open projects.</td>
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<p>File Name Pattern</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r9c1-t61 r1c2-t61">The pattern of file names, such as *.html, to search through.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use Ignore List</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r10c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Use a list of files to ignore when performing the search. Click edit to open a dialog where you can add or remove files and file paths from the ignore list.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regular Expression</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r11c1-t61 r1c2-t61">Indicates that the entry in the file name pattern field is a regular expression.</td>
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